Lot 92
  • 92

REYNOLDS, 'MY DEAR CARL', INK AND BODYCOLOUR, 1943

Estimate
700 - 900 GBP
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Description

  • Frank Reynolds
  • 'My dear Carl, I congratulate you! This cartoon of Churchill, reduced to smoking cigarettes, should put new heart into our people!'
229 by 171mm., pen ink and monochrome watercolour, signed and inscribed with title below mount, mounted, framed and glazed

Provenance

EXHIBITED:
'Images of Power: From the Jeffrey Archer Cartoon Collection', Monnow Valley Arts, 3 September - 30 October 2011

Literature

Punch, 6 January 1943, page 15

Condition

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Catalogue Note

Reynolds’ cartoon mocks the increasing weakness of German propaganda, as the war began to turn against them. Churchill was rarely photographed during the war without a cigar in his mouth. His cigar habit began while he was stationed in Cuba in 1895, and he favoured a small number of Cuban brands, smoking between six and ten a day. Along with his love of cigars, it was well-known that Churchill strongly disliked cigarettes. The poster in the background suggests that the German publication featured in this image is Der Stürmer, a weekly tabloid newspaper that played a significant role in the Nazi Propaganda machine, particularly through the dissemination of aggressively anti-semitic material. Der Stürmer's editor was Julius Streicher, seen here sitting at his desk.